Color story

Peach & Apricot dahlias

Soft oranges, melons, and sunset blends. The fastest growing corner of the catalog as warm tones come back.

These palettes are our editorial groupings. The ADS classifies color separately with 15 formal classes; profiles note both where verified.

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Roger Turrell, 1991

Castle Drive

A light blend in soft sherbet peach. Coseytown and Idlewild note it carries less yellow than the varieties it gets confused with.

Formal Decorative BBSells out fast
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Kristine Albrecht, 2022

KA's Boho Peach

Peachy pink that opens warm coral, with the back petals fading as the bloom ages. The two-tone shift from coral to softer peach gives arrangements depth.

Miniature Ball MSells out fast
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John W. Sherwood, 1944

Sherwood's Peach

Glowing peach classed as bronze by the ADS. Idlewild Blooms describes huge, fluffy bronze blooms with the tiniest purple haze in the center, and the petal reverse carries that purple shadow throughout.

Informal Decorative AASells out fast
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Hybridizer unverified

Bracken Palomino

A shifting peachy-orange to peachy-coral, the color moving through the season and even across a single bloom.

Formal Decorative BBSells out fast
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Hybridizer unverified

Bracken Sarah

A soft peach-apricot blend, the gentler sister to Bracken Palomino in the same warm family.

Formal Decorative BBSells out fast
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Hybridizer unverified

Pam Howden

A golden-peach light blend on a clean waterlily, the benchmark of the form on the show bench.

WaterlilyLimited supply
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LeeAnn Huber, 2026

Coseytown EverPeach

A solid midtone orange-peach bred to hold a consistent color all season as daylight shortens, a trait the breeder calls rare. Most peach dahlias drift with the season; this one is selected not to.

Formal DecorativeNearly impossible to find